Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Doctor Who Vs. Casanova

The story of the life of the legendary 18th
century Italian adventurer, Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was scripted by then Doctor Who showrunner, Russell T Davies and co-executive produced with Julie Gardner.
Stage and film actor Peter O'Toole (1932-2013) portrayed the older Casanova, whilst David Tennant's role as the younger man Davies to
cast him in the lead of the newly revived Doctor Who series.

The three-part comedy drama (a co-production from Red, BBC Wales and Granada TV) was originally broadcast on BBC Three in March 2005, then on BBC One in April. Another repeat run began on the Drama channel last night, and featured Matt Lucas (as Villers) and thirty-two further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Big Finish artist Nickolas Grace (Chancellor) made a brief TV appearance as Albert Einstein in Death is the Only Answer, voiced Loozly for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), the Time Lord Straxus for Human Resources (2007), Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), both Balancer and Viktor Skaarsgard for Equilibrium (2015), then Goole for The Gallery of Ghouls (2016)

co-executive producers Michael Treen and Damien Timmer were the production manager on The Twin Dilemma, and an extra on An Adventure in Space and Time respectively

film editor Nick Arthurs also edited The Curse of the Fatal Death then Hide

Liz Griffiths was the set decorator on seven Series 1 stories too

Steve Smith was also make-up artist on forty-one episodes, from The Christmas Invasion to The Waters of Mars, and Music of the Sphere

Susan Liggat was also first assistant director on Love & Monsters,Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, then produced another eight installments of the Tennant era, as well as the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures

recordist Nick Foley was ADR mixer on The Snowmen

VFX compositor Simon Blackledge and Matt Wood both worked onA Town Called Mercy and The Power of Three - Wood was VFX supervisor on The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe too

Samantha Hall was also post-production supervisor on fifty-one installments, from New Earth to Flesh and Stone, Time Crash and Music of the Spheres

Anna Lau was costume supervisor on nine NuWho episodes too

Julie Scott was also production executive on seventy-seven stories, from The Runaway Bride to The Time of the Doctor, besides Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, Doctor Who at the Proms, Dreamland,The Adventure Games: City of the Daleks and Blood of the Cybermen, nine episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures and thirty Torchwood adventures